The Boston Bruins' second-round pick went to the San Jose Sharks as the result of a trade on June 17, 2017 that sent Mirco Mueller and a fifth-round pick in 2017 to New Jersey in exchange for Nashville's fourth-round pick in 2017 and this pick.[34]

The Florida Panthers' fourth-round pick went to the San Jose Sharks as the result of a trade on June 24, 2017, that sent Nashville's fourth-round pick and a sixth-round pick both in 2017 (123rd and 174th overall) to the New York Rangers in exchange for this pick.[35]

The Nashville Predators' sixth-round pick went to the San Jose Sharks as the result of a trade on June 24, 2017, that sent San Jose and Ottawa's seventh-round picks in 2017 (205th and 214th overall) to New Jersey in exchange for this pick.[37]

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San Jose Sharks
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they play their home games at the SAP Center, known locally as the Shark Tank. The Sharks were founded in 1991 and were the first NHL franchise based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the California Golden Seals relocated to Cleveland in 1976 and they have won six division titles and one conference championship. The Oakland Coliseum Arena was home to the California Golden Seals of the NHL from 1967 to 1976. They had long wanted to bring back to the Bay Area, and asked the NHL for permission to move the North Stars there in the late 1980s. Meanwhile, a group led by former Hartford Whalers owner Howard Baldwin was pushing the NHL to bring a team to San Jose, in return, the North Stars would be allowed to participate as an equal partner in an expansion draft with the new Bay Area team. On May 5,1990, the Gunds officially sold their share of the North Stars to Baldwin and were awarded a new team for the Bay Area, over 5,000 potential names were submitted by mail for the new team. While the first-place finisher was Blades, the Gunds were concerned about the potentially negative association with weapons. The name was said to have inspired by the large number of sharks living in the Pacific Ocean. Seven varieties live there, and one area of water near the Bay Area is known as the red triangle because of its shark population. The teams first marketing head, Matt Levine, said of the new name, Sharks are relentless, determined, swift, agile, bright and we plan to build an organization that has all those qualities. For their first two seasons, the Sharks played at the Cow Palace in Daly City, just outside San Francisco, a facility that the NHL, pat Falloon was their first draft choice, and led the team in points during their first season. George Kingston was their first coach during their first two seasons, Wilson was named the teams first captain and All-Star representative in the inaugural season. However, the Sharks first two seasons saw the struggles for an expansion team. The 71 losses in 1992–93 is an NHL record, and they suffered a 17-game losing streak, while winning just 11 games. Kingston was fired following the end of the 1992–93 season, several team firsts happened in the 1992–93 season. On November 17,1992, San Jose goaltender Arturs Irbe recorded the first shutout in team history, the early era also saw the birth of the San Jose Sharks long-time mascot, S. J. Sharkie. On January 28,1992, at a game vs. the New York Rangers, a Name the Mascot contest began that night, with the winning name of S. J. Sharkie being announced on April 15,1992

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Western Conference (NHL)
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The Western Conference is one of two conferences in the National Hockey League used to divide teams. Its counterpart is the Eastern Conference, previously known as the Clarence Campbell Conference, it was created in 1974 when the NHL realigned its teams into two conferences and four divisions. Because the new conferences and divisions had little to do with North American geography, the names of conferences and divisions were changed in 1993 to reflect their geographic locations. However, the trophy awarded to the champion, the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl. In 2005, following the lockout, the changed the Western Conference logo to its current form. The Campbell Conference originally consisted of the Patrick Division and the Smythe Division, the 1981 realignment moved the Patrick Division to the Prince of Wales Conference and added that conferences Norris Division instead. When the names of conferences and divisions were changed in 1993, realignment in 1998 added a third division, the Northwest. The Northwest Division was dissolved in 2013 and its American teams joined the Central, while the Canadian teams returned to the Pacific. With this 2013 realignment, the Central Division is based almost entirely in the Central Time Zone, and the Pacific Division is based entirely within the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones. On June 22,2016, the NHL awarded Las Vegas an expansion team that will play in 2017. The NHLs playoff system has changed over the years, prior to 1982, the NHL had a unique playoff system compared to the NFL, NBA. and MLB. Playoff teams were seeded regardless of conference, as a result, two teams from the same conference could meet in the Stanley Cup Finals, like what happened in 1977,1978, and 1980. Under this system, the Campbell Conference champion, and therefore the winner of the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, was the team finished with the best regular season record in the conference. Ever since the introduction of the Conference Finals in 1982, the Campbell Bowl has been presented to the Campbell/Western Conference playoff champions, in the playoff system introduced in 1982, the top four teams in each division made the playoffs. The first-round winners met in the Division Finals, and the final winners met in the conference finals. In this format, the division standings tended to be very static, in the Norris Division for example, the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues never missed the postseason under this format while the Detroit Red Wings only missed four times. In the Smythe Division, the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers made the playoffs every year while the Winnipeg Jets only missed twice, in both cases, this usually left the other two teams to fight it out for the last playoff spot. In most years, this resulted in the strongest teams during the regular season being forced to meet in the first or second round rather than the Conference Finals

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Doug Wilson (ice hockey)
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Douglas Frederick Wilson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and the current general manager of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. After a junior career for the Ottawa 67s in the Ontario Hockey Association, Wilson was drafted in the first round, 6th overall. He then played 14 seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks and two years for the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League and he was the first captain in Sharks history, serving two years before retiring after the 1992–93 season. Wilson played 14 seasons in Chicago and still ranks as the clubs highest scoring defenceman in points, goals, Wilson is fifth all-time in games played for Chicago. He also led all Blackhawks defencemen in scoring for 10 consecutive seasons, in 1982, he was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy, as the Leagues top defenceman. That year, he had 39 goals and 85 points, which is still the Blackhawks single-season records for goals and he was selected to eight NHL All-Star Games. While with Chicago, Wilson was named as an NHL First Team All-Star in 1982, acquired by San Jose from Chicago just before the Sharks first season, Wilson brought instant credibility and respect to the young franchise. He played two seasons for the Sharks, scoring 48 points in 86 games, at his 1, 000th NHL game played ceremony, he announced the creation of the Doug Wilson Scholarship Foundation. This scholarship provides assistance to worthy college-bound Bay Area students, Wilson announced his retirement as a member of the Sharks during training camp in 1993–94 after playing in 1,024 career games. In addition, he played in 95 career playoff games and scored 80 points, the Ottawa, Ontario native scored 827 points during his career that began in 1977-78 with Chicago. Five time Norris Trophy Nominee as best NHL defenceman, Chicago Blackhawks Leader in Career Goals and Points by a defenceman. Led all Chicago Blackhawks defenceman in Scoring for 10 consecutive seasons, 1st Captain in San Jose Sharks team history. 3rd All Time by a defenceman for Most Goals in a Season, #12 All Time among defenceman for Most Career Goals. #15 All Time among defenceman for Most Career Points, in 2004, Wilson was named to the Positive Coaching Alliances National Advisory Board. PCA, established at Stanford University in 1998, tries to create a positive character-building experience by using sports to teach life lessons, the win-at-all-costs mentality is de-emphasized in PCA. Wilson was inducted into the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame in September 1999 and he also serves on the NHLs board of directors for the alumni association. In October 1998, the Ottawa 67s honored his career by retiring his No.7 sweater. Known as a defenceman, he recorded 295 points in 194 OHL games with the 67s from 1975–77

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Captain (ice hockey)
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In ice hockey the captain is the player designated by his team as the only person authorized to speak with the game officials regarding rule interpretations when he is on the ice. At most levels of each team must designate one captain. The captain wears a C on his sweater, while the alternate captains wear an A, as with most team sports that designate captains, the captain is usually a well-respected player and a de facto team leader. The captain is a dressing room leader, and also represents the players concerns to management, NHL teams need not designate the same player as captain from game to game, though most teams do. For instance, in the 1985–86, when Boston Bruins captain Terry OReilly retired, Ray Bourque, Middleton wore the C during home games and Bourque for road games during the seasons first half, and the two switched for the second half. This arrangement continued until Middleton retired in 1988 and Bourque became the sole captain, some teams name two or three captains for a season. Some teams rotate captains rather than one for an extended period of time. During each NHL game, however, only one player can officially be designated as captain. Captains are selected by different means, in instances, teams have held votes among their players to choose a team captain, while on other occasions. Captains are often due to their seniority in the game. However, franchise players—current or emerging stars—have also been named captains, though not required, many captains have previously served as alternate captains of their team. The NHL introduced a rule prohibiting the goaltender from being a captain following the 1947–48 season, in the NCAA, there is no position-based restriction on the team captain. Teams may designate alternate captains, also erroneously called assistant captains. Alternate captains wear the letter A on their jerseys in the manner that team captains wear the C. In the NHL, teams may appoint a captain and up to two alternate captains, or they may appoint three alternate captains and no captain. A team commonly has three alternate captains when the team has not selected a captain, or when the captain is injured. International and USA amateur rules do not allow this, they stipulate that each team shall appoint a Captain, if the team chooses to not appoint a captain, they are not permitted to appoint a fourth alternate captain. When the captain is off the ice or unavailable for the game, NHL teams may choose alternate captains from game to game or appoint regular alternate captains for the season

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Joe Pavelski
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Joseph James Pavelski is an American professional ice hockey player and captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He scored a goal in his first NHL game, making him the 11th Sharks player in the history of the team to do so and he won a silver medal as a member of the United States national mens ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He also served as captain of Team USA at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, Joe was born to Sandy and Mike Pavelski and has three siblings—Jerry, Sheri, and Scott. His family is Polish American and their surname was originally spelled Pawelski and his mother said, He loved anything athletic, and hockey was just a good fit for the winter. You didnt realize that your son was that good, Joe Pavelski is co-owner of the Janesville Jets NAHL team. His younger brother Scott formerly played for the University of New Hampshire mens ice hockey team, Pavelski won a Wisconsin State Hockey Championship with SPASH Panthers in 2002. He was a member of the 2004 Clark Cup champion Waterloo Black Hawks of the USHL and he won the 2004 USHL Dave Tyler Junior Player of the Year Award. Pavelski played in 84 games over two seasons at the University of Wisconsin of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association He recorded 101 points. Pavelski was named to the All-WCHA Rookie Team in 2005, was selected to the All-WCHA Second Team, and he helped Wisconsin win the 2006 NCAA Division I Mens Ice Hockey Championship, while leading the team in overall points. Pavelski began his NHL career in the 2006–07 season and he began on a hot streak, scoring a goal in his first game, and scoring a total seven goals and 10 points in his first 12 games. He continued playing well, but suffered a leg injury which reduced his playing time, Pavelski earned the sobriquet Little Joe from Sharks announcer Randy Hahn, a reference to Pavelskis teammate and San Jose superstar Jumbo Joe, Joe Thornton. He also became one of the most dangerous players in the NHL during shootouts, during the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs, he was tied with Ryane Clowe for the team lead in goals and tied for second with Clowe in points. Pavelski also led San Jose with three game-winning goals during the playoffs, which tied for third most in the league, in addition to his offensive numbers, he finished tied 12th among NHL forwards in blocked shots during the regular season. Pavelski had another season in 2008–09, playing in 80 games and recording 25 goals,34 assists. It was after this streak that he picked up the nickname The Big Pavelski to accompany his former nickname of Little Joe. Pavelski came close to scoring his first NHL hat trick on March 19,2011, after the game, however, one of the goals was awarded to Patrick Marleau, when it had been originally attributed to Pavelski, thus holding him to a two-goal game. During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Pavelski signed with Belarusian team Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League, on July 30,2013, the Sharks announced that the club has signed Pavelski to a five-year contract extension. The extension began on July 1,2014, following the expiration of Pavelskis current contract, on March 11,2014, against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pavelski scored his 400th career point

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Logan Couture
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Logan Couture is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and an alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He was drafted by the Sharks ninth overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, although he was born in Guelph, Ontario, Couture spent most of his youth growing up in Birr, near London, Ontario. He started playing hockey with the Lucan Irish of the OMHAs Southwestern Ontario League. Couture led his Lucan Irish Novice team to the OMHAs Red Lobster Cup for a SW Ontario title in 1998 and his Irish Atom team also won the OMHA Ontario DD title in 2001. Both of those teams won the International Silver Stick C championships. He then moved to London and played three years with the AAA London Junior Knights of the Minor Hockey Alliance League, where he was a teammate of current Los Angeles Kings defenceman Drew Doughty. After his Bantam year with the Jr. Knights, Couture signed with the Junior B St. Thomas Stars, in May 2005, Couture was drafted by the Ottawa 67s 12th overall in the 2005 OHL Priority Draft. Couture went on to score at a near point-per-game pace as a rookie with 64 points in 65 games in 2005–06, third in rookie scoring behind John Tavares. The next season, in 2005–06, Couture was added to the OHL roster for the 2006 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge, replacing Jordan Staal, Couture was also selected to play for the Eastern Conference in the 2007 OHL All-Star Game, winning the shooting accuracy competition. After completing his second OHL season, where he improved to 78 points in 54 games, returning to the 67s in 2007–08, Coutures production dipped to 58 points in 51 games, his lowest major junior total. He had also named to the 2008 OHL All-Star Game. Next season, in 2008–09, he finished in place in league scoring with 39 goals and 48 assists for 87 points in 62 games. He also appeared in the 2009 OHL All-Star Game, near the end of the season, he was named OHL Player of the Week on March 16,2009, following an eight-point performance in three games. On October 25,2009, Couture made his NHL debut for the San Jose Sharks against the Philadelphia Flyers and he scored his first NHL goal on November 5,2009, against Chris Osgood of the Detroit Red Wings. On April 22,2010, Couture scored his first two goals against the Colorado Avalanche in Game 5 of the first round of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs. He scored the goal in Game 3 in the second round against the Red Wings. Couture was also a part of the success of the 2009–10 American Hockey League s Worcester Sharks, as he played 42 games. He was a league-leader with nine game-winning goals and was named to the AHL All-Rookie Team and he was also voted onto the AHL All-Star starting line-up for AHL Team Canada, and finished the game with a goal and two assists as well as scoring a shoot-out goal

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Joe Thornton
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Joseph Eric Thornton is a Canadian professional ice hockey centreman and an alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He was selected first overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play seven seasons with the club, during the 2005–06 season, he was traded to the Sharks. Splitting the campaign between the two teams, he received the Art Ross and Hart Memorial Trophies as the leagues leading point-scorer and most valuable player, respectively. Thorntons on-ice vision, strength on the puck, deft passing ability, listed at 6-foot-4 and 222 pounds, he has received the nickname Jumbo Joe. Thornton grew up playing hockey in his hometown of St. Thomas, Ontario. He played AA hockey for the Travelers and in peewee won an Ontario Minor Hockey Association championship in 1992–93, the creation of this organization led to the St. Thomas Minor Hockey Association to compete at the A level. During his bantam year, he appeared in six games for the Junior B St. Thomas Stars of the Ontario Hockey Association, scoring eight points in six games as a 14-year-old. The following season, Thornton joined the Stars full-time and reeled off 104 points over 50 games as a 15-year-old, marie Greyhounds behind Daniel Tkaczuk, who was selected by the Barrie Colts. Beginning in 1995–96, Thornton began a career in the Ontario Hockey League with the Greyhounds. He posted a 76-point season in his first year, earning both OHL and CHL Rookie of the Year honours. The following season, Thornton improved to 41 goals and 122 points, second overall in League scoring behind Marc Savard of the Oshawa Generals, after his second OHL season, Thornton was selected first overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins. Thornton suffered an arm in the Bruins pre-season but made their roster for the 1997–98 campaign. He scored his first career NHL goal on December 3,1997, Head Coach Pat Burns was measured in his deployment of Thornton, using him almost exclusively on the fourth line and making him a regular healthy scratch. Averaging eight minutes and five seconds of ice time per game over the course of the season, in the 1998 Stanley Cup playoffs, Thornton went scoreless in six games. In 1998–99, Thornton saw significantly more ice time, averaging 15 minutes and 20 seconds per game, Thornton continued to build into a key player in the Bruins lineup, increasing his points total in each of the following two campaigns. In his first season as captain, Thornton recorded 68 points over 66 games. The following year, he notched his first career 100-point season with 36 goals, a career-high and he ranked third in NHL point-scoring, behind Peter Forsberg of the Colorado Avalanche and Markus Näslund from the Vancouver Canucks. Thorntons production declined to 73 points in 77 games in the 2003–04 campaign and he suffered a fractured right cheekbone in a fight with New York Rangers centreman Eric Lindros during a game on January 19,2004

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SAP Center
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SAP Center at San Jose is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League and it is also the home to the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League. Plans for a San Jose arena began in the mid-1980s, when a group of citizens formed Fund Arena Now. The group contacted city officials and pursued potential sponsors and partners NHL and NBA. In the late 1980s, mayor Tom McEnery met with FAN and a measure to allocate local taxes for arena construction came up for a vote on June 7,1988. Soon after the NHL granted a franchise to San Jose. The Sharks requested an upgrade to NHL standards, including the addition of luxury suites, the arena was completed in 1993 under the name San Jose Arena. In 2001, naming rights were sold to Compaq, and it was renamed Compaq Center at San Jose, after HP purchased Compaq in 2002, the arena was renamed HP Pavilion, the same name as one of its computer models. In June 2013, German software company SAP purchased the rights to the facility in a five-year deal worth $3.35 million per year. The arena was renamed SAP Center at San Jose following the approval of the San Jose City Council, Intel Extreme Masters Season IX – San Jose in 2014 and Intel Extreme Masters Season X – San Jose were held at venue. Prior to Super Bowl 50 in nearby Santa Clara, the arena housed introductory media activities for the event, the SAP Center hosted games 3,4, and 6 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals, with the cup being presented to the Pittsburgh Penguins in game 6

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San Jose Barracuda
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The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League which began play in the 2015–16 season. Affiliated with the National Hockey Leagues San Jose Sharks, the Barracuda share the SAP Center with its parent club, the Barracuda are a relocation of the former Worcester Sharks AHL franchise, joining several other AHL franchises to form a new AHL Pacific Division. The team will play at the SAP Center at San Jose, neither the Sharks nor Barracuda would comment, however, they stated that an official announcement would come later in the week. The name and logo were confirmed the day in a joint press release. Friday October 9,2015 marked the first official game in Barracuda history and they took on the Rockford IceHogs at home, coming up on the losing end of a 4-2 score. Micheal Haley scored the first ever goal while on a power play in the first period. The Barracuda picked up the first win in history while visiting the Stockton Heat on October 15,2015 by a score of 4-1. On February 10,2016, head coach Roy Sommer broke the record for most wins as an AHL coach, the Barracuda finished the season 31-26-8-3. Their.527 winning percentage meant that they were matched up against the Ontario Reign during the Pacific Division semifinals. After splitting the first two games of the series, the Barracuda came out on the losing end of game three by a 3-1 score, and also lost game four by a score of 4-1 to end their season. Bryan Lerg and Nikolay Goldobin led the team in goals with 21, goaltender Aaron Dell played a team high 40 games in net for the Barracuda, while winning 17 of them. The teams average attendance of 4,412 placed them 24th of 30 in the AHL

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American Hockey League
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The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League. Twenty-seven AHL teams are located in the United States and the three are in Canada. The league offices are located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and its current president is David Andrews, the annual playoff champion is awarded the Calder Cup, named for Frank Calder, the first President of the NHL. The reigning champions are the Lake Erie Monsters, the AHL traces its origins directly to two predecessor professional leagues, the Canadian-American Hockey League, founded in 1926, and the first International Hockey League, established in 1929. With both leagues down to the minimum in membership, the governors of each recognized the need for action to assure their member clubs long-term survival. Their solution was to play an interlocking schedule, while the Can-Am was based in the Northeast and the IHL in the Great Lakes and Midwest, their footprints were close enough for this to be a viable option. The two older leagues eight surviving clubs began joint play in November 1936 as a new circuit of mutual convenience known as the International-American Hockey League. The four Can-Am teams became the I-AHL East Division, with the IHL quartet playing as the West Division. The IHL also contributed its former championship trophy, the F. G. Teddy Oke Trophy, the Oke Trophy is now awarded to the regular-season winners of the AHLs Northeast Division. A little more than a month into that first season, the balance, the makeshift new I-AHL played out the rest of its first season with just seven teams. At the end of the 1936–37 season, a modified playoff format was devised and a new championship trophy. The Syracuse Stars defeated the Philadelphia Ramblers in the final, three-games-to-one, the Calder Cup continues on today as the AHLs playoff championship trophy. After two seasons of interlocking play, the governors of the two leagues seven active teams met in New York City on June 28,1938, maurice Podoloff of New Haven, the former head of the Can-Am League, was elected the I-AHLs first president. The former IHL president, John Chick of Windsor, Ontario, the Bears remain the only one of these eight original I-AHL/AHL franchises to have been represented in the league without interruption since the 1938–39 season. The newly merged circuit also increased its schedule for each team by six games from 48 to 54. After the 1939–40 season the I-AHL renamed itself the American Hockey League and it generally enjoyed both consistent success on the ice and relative financial stability over its first three decades of operation. The number of teams competing for players rose from six to thirty in just seven years. Player salaries at all levels shot up dramatically with the increased demand and this did not seem to affect the AHL at first, as it expanded to 12 teams by 1970

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Allen Americans
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The Allen Americans are an ice hockey team headquartered at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas, which currently plays in the ECHL. The team was founded in 2009 in the Central Hockey League where they played for five seasons, the CHL folded in 2014 and the ECHL accepted the remaining CHL teams as members for the 2014–15 season. In their first two seasons in the ECHL, Allen advanced to the Kelly Cup finals, winning the championship in both years, currently, the Americans are affiliated with the National Hockey Leagues San Jose Sharks and the American Hockey Leagues San Jose Barracuda. On April 15,2009, the Central Hockey League announced a team for Allen. The new team was owned by Top Shelf, LLC, a group consisting of EXCO Resources chairman Douglas H. Miller and former NHL defenseman Steve Duchesne and that same day, the team announced an affiliation with the NHLs Dallas Stars. Through this affiliation, they affiliated with the Austin-based AHL Texas Stars. On April 27,2009, the group unveiled the teams name, logo. On May 12,2009, the Americans announced Dwight Mullins as their head coach, along with Bill MacDonald as assistant coach. The first game on ice was not until November 7,2009. Allen advanced to the playoffs as the two seed in the Southern Conference in their first season, defeating both the Laredo Bucks and number one seed Odessa Jackalopes in seven games. In the Ray Miron Presidents Cup finals, they took a 2–1 series lead over the Rapid City Rush, Allen also qualified for the playoffs in the following two seasons, winning the Bud Poile Governors’ Cup regular season title in only their second season in the league. They lost in the finals to eventual champions, the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, in 2011. This agreement officially made the Americans affiliates of the Avalanche after having a relationship with the Monsters over the previous two years. This affiliation is no longer in place as Colorado and Lake Erie moved their affiliation to the now defunct Denver Cutthroats organization. On May 4,2012, the Allen Americans announced that former Dallas Stars Mike Modano, Craig Ludwig, shortly after, the Allen Americans announced that they would not retain GM and head coach Dwight Mullins, along with associate coach Bill McDonald. Richard Matvichuk was then announced as the assistant general manager and defensive coach, a month later, the Americans announced Steve Martinson as their new head coach. After falling behind 2-0 in the first two periods of seven against the Wichita Thunder, Allen scored two third period goals to tie the game. In overtime, Todd Robinson scored the winner to give Allen their first championship win

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ECHL
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The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey, with teams scattered across the United States and one franchise in Canada. It is a tier below the American Hockey League, additionally, the leagues players are represented by the Professional Hockey Players Association in negotiations with the ECHL itself. Some 614 players have played at least one game in both the NHL and the ECHL. All but four National Hockey League teams have affiliations with an ECHL team with Columbus, Florida, New Jersey, however, these teams do sometimes lend contracted players to ECHL teams for development and increased playing time. The leagues regular season begins in October and ends in April, the current ECHL champion is the Allen Americans. Alaska, Bakersfield, Fresno, Idaho, Las Vegas, Long Beach, in a change reflective of the leagues now-nationwide presence, the East Coast Hockey League shortened its name to the orphan initialism ECHL on May 19,2003. The ECHL reached its largest size to date that season before being reduced to 28 teams for the 2004–05 season, the ECHL has attempted to be more tech-friendly to its fans. In 2008, the introduced the ECHL toolbar for internet browsers which gave users short cut access to statistics, scores, transactions. At the annual ECHL Board of Governors Meeting on June 15,2010, in Henderson, Nevada, the former American Conference was renamed the Eastern Conference, while the National Conference, was re-designated the Western Conference. Within the Eastern Conference, the East Division was renamed the Atlantic Division, the league lost its only Canadian team with the folding of the Victoria Salmon Kings subsequent to the 2010–11 season. The league increased to 20 teams for the 2011–12 season with the addition of the expansion franchise Chicago Express and the Colorado Eagles who previously played in the Central Hockey League. That number dropped to 22 for the 2013–14 season with the folding of the Trenton Titans, the league, because of geographical anomalies, has used unbalanced conferences and divisions, making for some extremely varied playoff formats and limited inter-conference play. Due to travel costs, the league has attempted to placate owners in keeping those costs down, the Board of Governors then votes whether or not to extend the franchises league licenses until the next Board of Governors Meeting. At the 2012 Board of Governors Meeting, the Board elected to limit the league to 26 teams, however, it was decided at the 2015 Board of Governors meeting that the cap should be expanded to 30 teams, hoping to eventually match the NHL and AHLs 30-team total. Reno has not had a minor hockey team since its WCHL franchise folded in 1998. After being listed for about a decade, Reno was eventually removed from the future markets page in spring 2016. However, in September 2016, new group called Reno Puck Club, LLC came forward. On February 8,2016, the announced its approval of the Worcester Railers HC as an expansion team in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Goal (ice hockey)
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In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the attacking the goal scored upon. The term goal may also refer to the structure in which goals are scored, the ice hockey goal is rectangular in shape, the front frame of the goal is made of steel tube painted red and consists of two vertical goalposts and a horizontal crossbar. A net is attached to the back of the frame to catch pucks that enter the goal, the entire goal is considered an inbounds area of the playing surface, and it is legal to play the puck behind the goal. Under NHL rules, the opening of the goal is 72 inches wide by 48 inches tall, the object of the game of hockey is to score more goals than the opposing team. Goaltenders and defencemen are concerned primarily with keeping the team from scoring a goal. For a goal to be scored, the puck must entirely cross the line between the posts and under the crossbar of the goal frame. The NHL abolished this rule starting in the 1999-2000 season after the disputed triple-overtime goal in the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, brett Hull of the Dallas Stars scored the series-clinching goal against the Buffalo Sabres. On video replay, it was clear that Hulls skate was in the prior to the puck. Typically, the last player on the team to touch the puck before it goes into the net is credited with scoring that goal. Zero, one, or two players on the goal-scoring team may also credited with an assist for helping their teammate to score the goal. If another player on the goal-scoring team touched the puck to help score the goal before the player touched it without an opposing player intervening. If yet another player on the team also touched the puck before that without an opposing player intervening. However, a rule says that one point can be credited to any one player on a goal scored. Usually on a team, forwards score the most goals and get the most points, although defensemen can score goals. In professional play, goaltenders only occasionally get an assist, the number of goals scored is a closely watched statistic. Each year the Rocket Richard Trophy is presented to the NHL player to have scored the most goals, the trophy is named after Maurice Richard, the first player to score 50 goals in a season, at a time when the NHL regular season was only 50 games. The player to have scored the most goals in an NHL season is Wayne Gretzky

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Brent Burns
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William Brent Burns is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, who at times has been utilized as a forward, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He was converted into a defenceman upon turning professional, after being drafted as a wing forward at the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. During the shortened 2012–13 season, and continuing through the 2013–14 season, starting with the 2014–15 season, he was returned to defence. In the 2015–16 season, Burns finished third in voting for the James Norris Memorial Trophy, Burns was drafted by the Minnesota Wild in the first round, 20th overall, in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He spent most of his hockey career playing for the Barrie Icemen. Burns then played his Ontario Hockey League career as a winger with the Brampton Battalion in the 2002–03 season. He led the team in scoring that season with five goals. Burns was runner-up for Most Improved Player in the OHL as voted on by Leagues coaches, upon turning professional with the Wild in 2003, Burns was converted to defence by defensively-minded Minnesota Head Coach Jacques Lemaire. Burns played in 36 games with Minnesota in the 2003–04 season, on October 25,2007, during the 2007–08 season, Burns signed a four-year contract extension with the Wild. He emerged as one of the Wilds top defencemen, scoring a career-high 15 goals and 43 points, Burns then had shoulder surgery upon the completion of the Wild season. He finished the season with 27 points. Burns suffered another concussion briefly into his 2009–10 season, beginning to skate again only on January 14 and he finished another injury-filled season with 20 points in 47 games. On November 12,2010, Burns was suspended for two games for hitting Florida Panthers forward Steve Bernier, Burns hit Bernier on the chin with the knob of the stick, causing Bernier to bleed profusely. During the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, Burns, along with a draft pick in 2012, was traded to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Devin Setoguchi, Charlie Coyle. In 2013, after rookie defenceman Matt Irwins acquisition by the Sharks, in March, Burns was moved to forward, in the 2013–14 season, Burns played the first eight games of the season, but missed 13 games after October 21 due to sore gums. On November 21, Burns returned to the Sharks line-up and scored a goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 5–1 winning effort, on November 29, against the St. Louis Blues, Burns recorded his first career hat-trick in a 6–3 victory. In August 2014, the Sharks announced that Burns would move back to defense, on November 23,2016, Burns signed an eight-year $64 million contract extension with the Sharks through 2024–25, with an average annual value of $8 million per year. Burns was named the best defenceman at the 2008 World Championships as he helped Canada to a silver medal finish as the host country

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Penalty (ice hockey)
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A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for an infringement of the rules. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, Penalties are called and enforced by the referee, or in some cases the linesmen. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice, the opposing team is said to be on a power play, having one player more on the ice than the short-handed team. The short handed team is said to be penalty killing until the penalty expires, while standards vary somewhat between leagues, most leagues recognize several common degrees of penalty, as well as common infractions. The statistic used to track penalties was traditionally called Penalty Infraction Minutes and it represents the total assessed length of penalties each player or team has accrued. The first codified rules of hockey, known as the Halifax Rules, were brought to Montreal by James Creighton, who organized the first indoor hockey game in 1875. Two years later, the Montreal Gazette documented the first set of Montreal Rules, the only penalty outlined by these rules was that play would be stopped, and a bully would take place. Revised rules in 1886 mandated that any player in violation of rules would be given two warnings, but on a third offence would be removed from the game. It was not until 1904 that players were ruled off the ice for infractions, at that time, a referee could assess a two-, three- or five-minute penalty, depending on the severity of the foul. By 1914, all penalties were five minutes in length, reduced to three minutes two years later, and the player was given an additional fine. When the National Hockey League was founded in 1917, it mandated that a team could not substitute for any player who was assessed a penalty, the penalty was shortened to two minutes for the 1921–22 season, while five- and ten-minute penalties were added two years later. A minor penalty is the least severe type of penalty, a minor penalty is two minutes in length. The offending player is sent to the penalty box and in most cases, if the offending player is the goaltender or a team is given a bench minor penalty, then any skater who was on the ice at the time of the infraction may serve the penalty. A team with an advantage in players will go on a power play. If they score a goal during this time, the penalty will end, in hockeys formative years, teams were shorthanded for the entire length of a minor penalty. The NHL changed this rule following the 1955–56 season where the Montreal Canadiens frequently scored multiple goals on one power play. Most famous was a game on November 5,1955, when Jean Béliveau scored three goals in 44 seconds, all on the power play, in a 4–2 victory over the Boston Bruins. Coincidental minor penalties occur when a number of players from each team are given a minor penalty at the same time

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Brenden Dillon
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Brenden Dillon is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Undrafted, and prior to turning professional, Dillon played four seasons of junior ice hockey in the Western Hockey League with the Seattle Thunderbirds. On March 1,2011, Dillon was signed as an agent to a three-year entry-level contract by the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. During the 2012–13 season, on February 1,2013, Dillon registered his first career Gordie Howe Hat Trick, during that game, he also registered his first career goal in a 4–3, shootout win against the Phoenix Coyotes. Dillon was selected to play for Canada in the 2013 IIHF World Championship and it was Dillons first International appearance as he scored one goal in eight games. Team Canada would lose in the Quarterfinal to the tournament champion Sweden 2-1 in a shootout. On November 21,2014, Dillon was traded by the Stars to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Jason Demers and a 2016 third-round pick. On June 29,2015, Dillon signed a 5 year $16.35 million dollar contract extension, Brenden Dillon career statistics at EliteProspects. com Brenden Dillons career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

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Plus/minus
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Plus−minus is a sports statistic used to measure a players impact on the game, represented by the difference between their teams total scoring versus their opponents when the player is in the game. In ice hockey, it measures a players goal differential, power play or penalty shot goals are excluded. An empty net does not matter for the calculation of plus–minus, the statistic is sometimes called the plus−minus rating. A players plus−minus statistic is calculated for each game played, to provide a meaningful measure over a full season. The statistic is directly affected by overall team performance, influenced by both the offensive and defensive performance of the team as a whole, the NHLs Montreal Canadiens were the first team to track the plus−minus of its players, starting sometime in the 1950s. Other teams followed in the early 1960s, and the NHL started officially compiling the statistic for the 1967–68 season, while Emile Francis is often credited with devising the system, he only popularized and adapted the system in use by the Canadiens. The NHL awarded the NHL Plus-Minus Award each year to the player with the highest plus−minus statistic during the season from 1982–83 to 2007–08. The Western Hockey League awards the WHL Plus-Minus Award each year to one of its players, one player on the career top five list, Ray Bourque, was never a single-season leader, while all-time career leader Larry Robinson only set the single-season mark once. Two players on the top five list, defencemen Bobby Orr and Dallas Smith. For instance, the NBAs Houston Rockets first utilized a version of the stat. It is now in use throughout the NBA. A plus−minus statistic has been used in economics to analyze the degree of competitive balance over time in association football

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Martin Jones (ice hockey)
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Martin Jones is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. In 2014, Jones won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Kings, Jones was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia. His father, Harvey, is the Vice President of Arena Operations with the Vancouver Canucks and he has a brother, Jordan, and a sister, Jocelyn. Jones felt that his fathers position with the Canucks gave him some opportunities within the game that most other kids would not get and he played midget with the Vancouver Northwest Giants of the BC Hockey Major Midget League. Jones attended Handsworth Secondary School and played ice hockey at the North Shore Winter Club, the Calgary Hitmen selected Jones in the fourth round of the 2005 WHL Bantam Draft. He joined the Hitmen in 2006–07 and served as the backup to Dan Spence for two seasons and he was eligible for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft but went undrafted. He emerged as Calgarys starting goaltender in 2008–09, his 45 wins for the Hitmen broke the record of 39. He led the league in wins, tied for the lead in shutouts and he backstopped the Hitmen to 12 consecutive wins in the playoffs, tying a league record, before the Hitmen lost the WHL championship series in six games to the Kelowna Rockets. Jones was invited to participate in the Canadian junior teams summer camp, with the Hitmen, Jones finished with a league-best GAA of 2.21 and was named a First Team All-Star in the Eastern Conference. In advance of his second appearance in the championship series. During the season, he surpassed Spences team record for career wins, the Kings assigned Jones to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs to begin the 2010–11 season. He was on the roster of the Los Angeles Kings as a spare when they won their first Stanley Cup, Jones finished fourth in the AHL with 27 wins in 2012–13 and was also among the league leaders in games played and shutouts. Jones began the 2013–14 season with Manchester, but was recalled by Los Angeles on November 13,2013, as the backup for the Kings, he did not get into game action for three weeks. Jones made his NHL debut on December 3 and earned a 3–2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks and he stopped all nine shooters he faced in a shootout to secure his first NHL win. Jones won his second NHL start and made 16 saves to record his first NHL shutout four nights later against the New York Islanders. Jones then found himself a full-time NHL goaltender for the first time after backup Ben Scrivens was traded to Edmonton, making Jones the teams primary backup to starter Quick. In turn, the Bruins traded Jones to the San Jose Sharks on June 30,2015 in exchange for a pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. The Sharks signed him to a contract worth $9 million

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Goals against average
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Goals Against Average is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender. GAA is analogous to a pitchers earned run average. In Japanese, the translation is used for both GAA and ERA, because of this. For ice hockey, it is calculated per game by dividing the number of goals against by the number of minutes played in the game then multiplied by 60. For a season, divide the number of goals against by the result of the total number of minutes played multiplied by 60. Alternatively, take the number of goals against, multiply that by 60 minutes, when calculating GAA, overtime goals and time on ice are included, whereas empty net and shootout goals are not. It is typically given to two decimal places, the top goaltenders in the National Hockey League currently have a GAA of about 1. 85-2.10, although the measure of a good GAA changes as different playing styles come and go. The top goaltenders in the National Lacrosse League however, currently have a GAA of about 10.00, at their best, elite NCAA water polo goalies have a GAA between 3.00 and 5.00

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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game

A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for an infringement of the rules. Most penalties are enforced by sending the …

The referee (top-left) signals a delayed penalty by raising an arm, and prepares to blow the whistle when a player from the team to be penalized (in white) gains control of the puck. Goaltender Jere Myllyniemi can be seen (right) rushing to the bench to send on an extra attacker.